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Grandma, Grandpa, It is me!

Posted on: Wed, 04/09/2008 - 17:42
Grandma, Grandpa, It is me!

Very elderly citizens are being targeted by young callers who begin the conversation with the exclamation, "Grandmother, it’s me! Don’t you know who this is?" If the targeted senior volunteers the name of a grandchild or great-grandchild, the caller adopts that name and then pretends to be in trouble and in need of assistance. The caller begs the elderly person not to tell the caller’s supposed parents, because the predicament is embarrassing. He or she will send a friend to the elderly person’s house to pick up cash or a check in order to help resolve the predicament.

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Posted on: Wed, 04/09/2008 - 17:47 #1

I know it is a hard thing to do, but please don't volunteer a name! Or give a name you know is fake when someone is trying something like this. If the person is really a long lost relative, they will eventually give up on the joke and come out and tell you who they are.

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